This book brings together a diverse range of contributions; personal testimonies, oral histories, scholarly analyses, and dialogues, centering Palestinian historians, architects, and practitioners writing from Gaza, the West Bank, refugee camps, and the global diaspora. This deliberate heterogeneity serves as a methodological stance, prioritizing lived knowledge and resisting the detachment of academic theory from the realities of those who endure colonial violence.

Organized into four thematic parts, the book moves across scales of inquiry. The first part traces the historical infrastructures of settler colonialism in Palestine, detailing how space has been mapped and structured. The second part turns to the present and the ongoing genocide, offering a chorus of voices documenting and archiving experiences from Gaza. The third part examines how institutions of memory and heritage have been implicated in colonial erasure, while the fourth focuses on spatial and collective practices of resistance.

Essential for scholars, architects, heritage professionals, and cultural practitioners, this book invites readers to think critically about the intersections of architecture, art, and politics while fostering cross-sectoral dialogue. It is a practice of refusal and an invitation to think, teach, and act in solidarity.

Nama'a Qudah is an interdisciplinary decolonial researcher and educator who earned her doctoral degree in architecture from Delft University of Technology in 2024. Her research confronts the architecture of displacement, centering Palestinian refugee camps as critical sites where space, power, and everyday practices intersect. Refusing extractive knowledge production, she works across architecture, oral history, visual arts, and anthropology to foreground lived experiences that dominant institutional frameworks routinely render invisible.

Sabina Tanović specializes in commemorative architecture, difficult heritage, and traumascapes. Through interdisciplinary research she is connecting architecture with cultural memory and social agency to provide critical frameworks for understanding memorial politics and design ethics. Her acclaimed book Designing Memory: The Architecture of Commemoration in Europe, 1914 to the Present (Cambridge, 2019) was shortlisted for the Memory Studies Association's First Book Award.